Edging and tracking means for walkways and the like



A. PETERSON Dec. 15, 1953 EDGING AND TRACKING MEANS FOR WALKWAYS AND THE LfKE Filed May 8, 195o Arthur Peterson 1N VEN TOR.

BY @zw ad Patented Dec. 15, 1.953

EDGIN G AND TRACKING MEANS FOR WALKWAYS AND THE LIKE Arthur Peterson, Havertown, Pa.

Application May 8, 1950, Serial No. 160,707

4 Claims.

The present invention relates to lawn edging, trimming and beautifying means broadly and, more specically, has to do with an especially constructed boundary marking edger guiding device which is adapted to be placed along marginal edge portions of flagstone and equivalent walkways, concrete and equivalent driveways, ower beds and the like to function as a divider and to facilitate the act of trimming grass easily and speedily.

Considerable time and thought has been given to the promotion of special edging tools and ways and means of enabling home owners and gardeners to maintain marginal edge portions of lawns neat and trim. For the most part the average home owner attempts to meet the varying requirements partly with a conventional lawn mower, with different types of scissors-like clippers, various types of edging tools; or perhaps by digging a marginal trench and thus bevelling the edges of the lawn to prevent the blades of grass from climbing and extending over driveways, walkways and the like.

There is an edging tool on the market which employs a handle which is provided on its lower end with a roller and a complemental sharpedged cutting and edging disc. This is a handy and generally a satisfactory tool and with said tool in mind I have evolved and produced a ways and means to expedite its practical utility in trimming up and edging a lawn with requisite nicety. In carrying out a preferred embodiment of the invention I contemplate the adoption and use of a sheet material (usually light weight sheet metal) elongated sheath-like track which is channel-shaped in cross-section. The stated track is adapted to be embedded in a trench in the ground or other equivalent foundation at a predetermined point. The upper edges of the side walls of the channel are fashioned into trackways, either of which may be selectively used to rollably support and guide the roller on the stated edging tool, the space or channelway between the walls serving to accommodate and permit the cutting disc to run along freely therein and to nip all grass growing across the channelway, thus providing a sharply defined area dividing line coincident with the channel.

More specifically, the invention has to do with a sheet metal channel-shaped form which is completely embedded in the ground in a manner to line the walls of the trench and which is provided with anchoring stakes to facilitate retention of the form, wherein the upper contiguous -edges of the side walls of the channel are bentl trench and also as a trimmer guide.

outwardly and then downwardly to provide tracking and guiding anges. In this connection the flanges are disposed in close proximity to the exterior surfaces of the respective walls to assist in providing a rigid sheath or track and also to provide stable crown-bends serving as stable trackways.

Other objects and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein like numerals are employed to designate like elements throughout the several views:

Fig. l is a perspective view of an edging form constructed in accordance with the invention showing the anchoring stakes for same;

Fig. 2 is a view in section and elevation showing the edging form and the manner in which it is set and staked in a trench in the ground to mark or define a division line between a ower garden or bed on one hand and an associated lawn on the other hand; and

Fig. 3 is a view based on Figure 1 but on a smaller scale and showing the manner in which a marketed type of rollable edging tool is aptly used in connection with the edging form.

By way of introduction to the specification, it is to be pointed out that the invention is adapted for use in delineating as well as marking the metes and bounds of a lawn, the dividing line between a garden and lawn and also is useful in edging the borders of walkways, driveways, and similar prominent areas. Briefly, it is characterized as a new article of manufacture comprising a form which may be treated as a liner for a It is of sheet material and is channel-shaped in crosssection and the walls thereof are resilient. The inherent resilient properties are so confined and arranged that the upper edges of the walls are forceably sprung together and are thus normally maintained in close spaced proximity so that the mouthof the channel is virtually closed. The walls are, because of this construction, adapted to be momentarily sprung apart when a cutting diskor equivalent grass trimmer or instrumentality is forced and wedged between said walls to spread the same apart.

Referring now to the several views of the drawings by reference numerals and accompanying lead lines it is to be stated that each edging device or form is fashioned from sheet material and is preferably formed from a bendable sheet of metal or equivalent non-corrosive material,

5 transverse ends of the form so that the latter may be satisfactorily tted and held in trenches which are of serpentine, circular, or other plan conguration. Y

3. The structure defined in claim 1 and anchoring stakes mounted on the exterior surface of at least one of the walls of the form, said stakes being pointed at their lower ends to extend below the bight portion, the upper ends of the stakes being disposed in planes spaced downwardly from the adjacent upper edges of the walls and the upper ends of said stakes being in closer proximity tothe upper edges of the walls than to the bight portion.

4. The structure dened in claim 2 wherein the upper edges of said walls are provided with outwardly and downwardly bent reinforcing flanges, said flanges being in close association with the exterior surfaces o! said walls and the 6 lengthwise bend of the iianges providing runalong tracks as well as selectively usable shearing elements cooperable with the stated grass cutting implement.

ARTHUR PETERSON.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 604,676 Follansbee May 24, 1898 1,033,431 McCarthy July 23, 1912 2,041,240 Gluesing May 19, 1936 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 15,425 Great Britain Nov. 26, 1886 215,529 Great Britain May 15, 1924 

